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Developmental milestones-6 to 12 months
Physical development
- Sits alone, crawls, walks
- Shows refined pincer grasp
- Perceives larger speech units crucial to understanding meaning
- Sensitive to pictorial depth cues
- Organizes many stimuli into meaningful patterns
- Relies on shape, color, and texture to distinguish objects from their surroundings
Cognitive development
- Combines sensorimotor schemes
- Engages in intentional, or goal-directed, behavior
- Finds objects hidden in one place
- Understanding of object properties and physical causality expands
- Engages in deferred imitation of adults’ actions with objects
- Recall memory for people, places, and objects improves
- Solves simple problems by analogy
- Groups stimuli into a wide range of meaningful categories
Social and emotional development
- Anger and fear increase in frequency and intensity
- Stranger anxiety and separation anxiety appear
- Uses caregiver as a secure base for exploration
- Engages in social referencing
- Shows “clear-cut” attachment to familiar caregivers
Language development
- Babbling expands to include sounds of spoken languages and the child’s language community
- Uses preverbal gestures (showing, pointing) to communicate
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